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GiveDirectly plans to pilot a program using Google's AI-based Flood Hub, which provides forecast warnings, to send early aid to at-risk families in Bangladesh (restofworld.org)
2025-10-16 Google AI Bangladesh

How OpenSea reinvented itself from an NFT marketplace to a crypto trading aggregator, facilitating $1.6B in trades in the first two weeks of October (www.forbes.com)
2025-10-16

Analysis: ten loss-making AI startups, including OpenAI, gained ~$1T in valuation over the past year, fueling concerns of an inflating bubble in private markets (www.ft.com)
2025-10-16 Startup AI

Quiet victories: Twenty-five years of Women, Peace and Security in action (www.aspistrategist.org.au)
2025-10-16

The Myth of the Asian Century spoken word book (www.lowyinstitute.org)
2025-10-16

Huawei's key partners SiCarrier and Qiyunfang showcased chipmaking gear and EDA software at a Shenzhen expo; SiCarrier's gear competes with older US products (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-10-16 Shenzhen

YouTube's creative ecosystem added over €7B to the EU's GDP in 2024 and supported 200K+ full-time equivalent jobs, according to advising firm Oxford Economics (blog.youtube)
2025-10-16 YouTube GDP

Investigation: the Trump family's crypto empire has reaped over $1B in pre-tax profits over the past year; Eric Trump says the true figure is “probably more” (www.ft.com)
2025-10-16 Trump Tax

The White House says representatives from Microsoft, Meta, Google, and other corporate donors to the $250M ballroom attended a dinner with President Trump (www.wsj.com)
2025-10-16 Trump Google Microsoft

Trans identity plummets among young Americans – study (www.rt.com)
2025-10-16 U.S.

Focused Sound Energy Holds Promise For Treating Cancer, Alzheimer's and Other Diseases (science.slashdot.org)
2025-10-16 Energy Alzheimer

OpenAI says all Sora 2 users can now generate videos up to 15 seconds on the app and web, while Pro users can generate videos up to 25 seconds on the web (x.com)
2025-10-16

Liberate, which builds AI agents to automate insurance operations, raised a $50M Series B led by Battery Ventures at a $300M post-money valuation (techcrunch.com)
2025-10-16 AI Battery Insurance

Basis Theory, which provides data management and payments infrastructure tools, raised a $33M Series B led by Costanoa, taking its total funding to $50M (finovate.com)
2025-10-16

Australia should heed Britain's tough choices – and its mistakes (www.lowyinstitute.org)
2025-10-16 Australia U.K.

Sources: F5's breach is blamed on China, whose hackers had infiltrated F5's network for at least 12 months using the Brickstorm malware to steal source code (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-10-16 China

Western Executives Shaken After Visiting China (slashdot.org)
2025-10-16 China

Campfire, an AI-powered ERP and accounting services provider, raised a $65M Series B co-led by Accel and Ribbit Capital, after raising a $35M Series A in June (news.crunchbase.com)
2025-10-16 AI ERP

NATO keeps massive forward military presence on Russia's doorstep – defense minister (www.rt.com)
2025-10-16 Russia

Google releases Cell2Sentence-Scale 27B (C2S-Scale), a 27B-parameter foundation model for single-cell analysis built on its Gemma family of open models (blog.google)
2025-10-16 Google

Norway Says 'Mission Accomplished' On Going 100% EV, Proposes Incentive Changes (tech.slashdot.org)
2025-10-16 Norway

The legal reform needed to match Australia's global humanitarian promises (www.lowyinstitute.org)
2025-10-16 Australia

Paxos says it “mistakenly minted” $300T worth of PayPal's PYUSD stablecoin on Wednesday and “burned” the tokens a little over 20 minutes later (decrypt.co)
2025-10-16

France leading EU drive to remove messaging privacy – Telegram founder (www.rt.com)
2025-10-16 France Europe

YouTube is down worldwide with playback error (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2025-10-16 YouTube

Europe's strangest border: Crossing the Saatse Boot, a slice of Russia in Estonia (www.lowyinstitute.org)
2025-10-16 Russia Europe

China 'Stole Vast Amounts' of Classified UK Documents, Officials Say (news.slashdot.org)
2025-10-16 China

Documents: Rhoda AI, which raised a $162.6M Series A in April, and Genesis AI, which raised a $105M seed earlier this year, have been developing humanoid robots (www.forbes.com)
2025-10-16 AI Robot

Waymo's Robotaxis Are Coming To London (tech.slashdot.org)
2025-10-16 London

Salesforce says it expects FY 2030 revenue of $60B+, vs. $58.37B est., excluding impact from the $8B pending acquisition of data management company Informatica (www.cnbc.com)
2025-10-16 Salesforce

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